Fiction ruined my family / Jeanne Darst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darst, Jeanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darst, Jeanne--Childhood and youth.

Darst, Jeanne.

Darst, Jeanne--Homes and haunts.

Novelists, American--21st century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, [2011]

Summary:

"A deeply funny and bittersweet memoir of having grown up in an eccentric family of faded wealth and gentility (think shades of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums) in which the father's failed dreams of being a writer put the family in the poor-house, drove the mother to weepy alcoholism, and provided Jeanne with a highly unusual approach to life--and a wicked sense of humor"--Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781594488146 ;